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1 case as defendant.
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Company overview. Blue Tree Systems is a fleet-telematics provider founded in the mid-1990s (sources vary: PitchBook lists 1995; other directories cite 1994 or 1996) and headquartered in Galway, Ireland, with US operations run out of Greensboro, North Carolina. The US entity, Blue Tree Systems, Inc., is the US arm of Blue Tree Systems Limited and its subsidiaries in the US, Germany, and France. It is private. PitchBook reports roughly 64 employees and about $4.8M raised from investors including Investec Ventures Ireland; other directory estimates put headcount at 100–200, so a precise figure is not verified. On October 2, 2017, ORBCOMM Inc. (then Nasdaq: ORBC) acquired Blue Tree; ORBCOMM itself was taken private by GI Partners in a $1.1B transaction that closed September 1, 2021.
Products / services. Blue Tree develops and sells cloud-based transportation management and telematics systems for truck fleets, marketed under the R:COM brand. Offerings include in-cab platforms (open Android architecture, BT500 vehicle gateway hardware), electronic logging devices and Hours-of-Service compliance, fuel and fuel-tax management, driver performance and driving-style analytics, vehicle and trailer GPS tracking, reefer/temperature monitoring for refrigerated freight, pre-/post-trip inspections, and European tachograph management. ORBCOMM reported the business served more than 300 customers across North America, the EU, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.
Patent-litigation posture. Operating company defending against a patent assertion suit. The tracked data show 0 cases as plaintiff and 1 as defendant — the classic profile of a product company being targeted, not an entity asserting a portfolio. There is no indication Blue Tree has ever filed a patent suit.
Notable cases. The single tracked matter is Innovative Global Systems, LLC v. Blue Tree Systems, Inc. (1:19-cv-00642-MN, D. Del., filed April 8, 2019). IGS, a patent-holding plaintiff, asserted US 8,032,277 and US 10,157,384 — ELD/Hours-of-Service logging patents — against Blue Tree alongside a parallel action against Samsara; IGS has previously sued telematics and fleet vendors including Turnpike Global, Teletrac, and Volvo Construction Equipment. IGS filed a notice of voluntary dismissal in the Blue Tree case on August 29, 2019. The case was filed in the District of Delaware rather than plaintiff-friendly EDTX.
IGS patent infringement suit in D. Del. asserting 8,032,277 and 10,157,384 against Blue Tree Systems. IGS voluntarily dismissed the case on Aug. 29, 2019.